Legislation like this must be carefully written because assisted-suicide activists frequently redefine terms and obfuscate crucial distinctions.
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GenAI is not neutral. It rides on our God-given gift of language, builds trust that leaves us open to deception, and changes us in ways we don’t notice.
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Proponents argue that the patient should be bound by the directive even if he wants to eat and drink; this softens the public up for death by lethal injection.
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It is way past time for the overburdened courts to dismiss these animal standing cases out of hand at the trial court level.
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More than 15,000 people died in Canada in one year because they couldn’t access care in the country’s collapsing socialized health-care system.
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The life-and-death challenge we face is how to ensure that AI systems never “take over” or even make recommendations and decisions that endanger humans.
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Nat Hentoff paid a steep price for his pro-life advocacy, losing his decades-long Village Voice column and suffering other career sanctions.
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The challenge, he argues, is to maintain Christian values while challenging Christian leaders who compromise in order to stay safe and successful.
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By attending a suicide party or ceremony, we validate the decision and, in so doing, become complicit in that death.
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Philosophy prof Jonathan Birch, principal investigator of the Animal Sentience Project at the London School of Economics, has written a book on whether and how animals feel things: The Edge of Sentience (Oxford University Press 2024). It’s not as arcane a topic as it might at first appear. It shows up in new legislation and think tanks. At Amazon, we learn, for example, “In 2021, he led a review for the UK government that shaped the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. In 2022-23, he was part of a working group that investigated the question of sentience in AI.” And as Birch told Marc Bekoff at Psychology Today, I’m probably best-known for my work on invertebrate sentience, which is one part Read More ›
If Italy accepts the bioethics’ commission’s advice, it will join a growing list of countries that are taking steps to end the practice.
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Journalist Michael Grunwald points out that factory farming means fewer natural spaces are cleared for farmland than would otherwise be the case.
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Euthanasia activists claim that legalizing assisted suicide doesn’t increase overall numbers. But their study actually shows a significant impact.
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The Washington Post has now edited an article to correct a key misstatement I criticized, without admitting it. Journalism dies in darkness.
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Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away.
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Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.
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27% of Canadians strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28% for suffering caused by homelessness.
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We can’t allow policies about some of the most powerful and potentially dangerous technologies ever invented to be left to the supposed moral “experts.”
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Canadian lawyer Collin May looked at recent research on Cancel mobs and found that the witnesses in an institution tend to go along with the cancellation.
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The world of right and wrong, crime and punishment, revenge and forgiveness, is a human one that requires the gift of abstract reason.
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